ICD-10 Vascular Surgery Webinar

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ICD-10 Vascular Surgery Webinar

An on demand version of the webinar, held April 1, will be available

for purchase in the upcoming weeks.

Avoid reimbursement issues caused by incorrect coding. ICD-10 coding, a new method of coding diagnoses and hospital procedures mandated by CMS, is scheduled to replace ICD-9 in October. An overview on the impact of ICD-10 regarding vascular surgery will be presented in an SVS webinar on April 1. Registration will open in mid-February.

Speaker

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Carrie Bosela, RN, CPC, CPC

Carrie has over 25 years of experience as a cardiovascular nurse. She currently works for the SVS Patient Safety Organization and oversees their Vascular Quality Initiative registry. Carrie has been a PMCC certified instructor for AAPC for the past 10 years and is also a certified ICD-10 AAPC instructor.

Learning ObjectiveUpon completion of the following programs, participants should be able to:

Code with the new ICD-10 diagnoses codes.

Target Audience

This course is designed for vascular surgeons and their office staff including practice managers, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, surgery schedulers, coders, and others who seek the transition to the ICD-10 code sets for vascular surgery.

Agenda

Regulatory overview and time line to implementation

New structure of codes

Examples of key vascular diagnosis codes

Q & A

Accreditation

The Society for Vascular Surgery is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation of Credit

The Society for Vascular Surgery designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAPC Continuing Education Unit (CEU) CreditThis program has the prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) for 1.5 continuing education units. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor.

Posted February 2014

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